The Way it is

God is under pressure from humans and angels to get rid of horrendous behaviour that escalates to outrageous levels. Torture of the innocent to lethal unthinkable levels leads us to scream out for justice and God cannot ignore that. So when God says time is up on such things there is nothing to do except to destroy those responsible - which might mean me and you if we persist in certain kinds of behaviour. Christ is an answer for some who can be persuaded to love God and listen enough to Jesus to pick up the message and stop those kinds of behaviour. But most hate God and ignore Jesus or distort His teachings. Even 'Christians' and 'Messianics' and 'Muslims' do - many do. We see that a lot online and it is foretold.
But it is not enough to simply stop doing those things if we might go back to it in the distant future. God wants to make permanent saints who will never need destroying ever. This is only possible through the Christ, the Son of Man who has always done right and has  proven He always will. He can make people stay like this. His great sacrifice makes it possible to go this way.

Salvation and the Kingdom of God

Salvation is the discipleship which Jesus calls true. Then truth can set you free. First you believe Jesus is the One who was with God from before the world began as He Himself said and He will be son eternally of God, the Christ forever. You believe Him and start to hold to His teachings and continue with permanent commitment (perhaps getting baptised). Once you start to settle in to discipleshipand put sin away and salvation begins, at some point the Holy Spirit works in you and actually manifests that He has entered you. Then His dominion over you takes effect. Then you have entered the dominion of the Holy Spirit - the kingdom of God. You learn to live by the Holy Spirit instead of by trusting in your lusts. You learn to stop denying the Holy Spirit. This is what you need to complete your escape from sin and enter righteous living instead of sinning and your salvation is becoming complete - if you keep on in that way until the end - which you can only do with Jesus rooting for you - even after this life and throughout all eternity.

Behind the Scenes of Salvation

Behind the scenes of salvation, (the best desciption I have found is John 8), the person being saved believes the statements of Jesus about Himself existing even before the birth of Abraham and having God fully working in Him and therefore being able to permanently keep saving a believer who holds to His teachings. They quit sins where they can but behind the scenes while holding to Jesus' teachings the Lord Jesus Christ starts saving them by freeing them from every damning serious sin (such as adultery, lying, murderously hating, etc). The Holy Spirit at some point enters their life when they have become Jesus' as He frees them and they learn to let the Holy Spirit lead and dominate their lives in Jesus' name. This becomes permanent and Jesus keeps saving them like this and protecting them from attempts by Satan to sway them, just as long as they keep holding to Jesus' teachings and believing Him in what He has said.

To be a Christian

Believe and understand what it really means that Jesus is the Messiah - that He existed before Abraham was born and is not only sent to judge but to save too. It is He who rids you of the sins that damn us so you need to hold to His teachings so you are His disciple so He will do this. You will need to believe that He did die on that cross but was raised to life again and lives forever having been dead and now alive and immortal. So He is alive to save His disciples by freeing us from our serious sins. So He was loving to God and obeyed God even dying to satisfy God's will and showed Himself worthy to be called a true Son to God - and God showed He accepted Jesus as a true Son by recognising this loving obedience and raising Him from the dead. These things you certainly need to believe to be a true Christian disciple.

Why I believe in God today

I always believed the stories of Jesus I heard as a child but between childhood and my thirties I used to have to think when I woke up each morning to persuade myself God is real. I thought it should not be like that so I longed to have evidence I could remember and prayed often God would show Himself. As I got older I learned He comes to those who obey the teachings of Jesus so I did that and prayed earnestly. I knew I was called to preach yet hardly knew about God really. Then God the Father appeared to me in a vision like a dream at night in my sleep and said "I am God" and told me things that showed His love for my fellow people and predicted things that would happen the following day to show me this love and how He saves people from bad outcomes and it all happened just as He said. The dream was in answer to my prayer to see Father and Son and Spirit. It was more than a dream because God Himself was personally interacting with me. Months before I had been given another vision when asking earnestly for the Holy Spirit and to know with certainty that I had been given me. The vision was a bucket of building sand tipped out in front of me and words like subtitles said "Build the Temple". I asked for threefold confirmation and at a church meeting three messages were given by members: three little girls had written a song that went "Build, build, build the Temple. Build, build, build the Temple. Build, build, build the Temple" A man with a guitar who often spoke and sang preached about David being told his son would build the Temple. Another man then spoke about building the Temple. So this vision was a very real event to me. So later said to God I would preach to build the temple that is His believers - building up by His word - but I needed to know Him so I was not speaking without knowledge. That is why I asked to see Father and Son and Spirit. Then after God came in the dream just days or weeks later (mid January 1995 I think it was) a torrential rain storm period hit locally and flooded rivers and I read in Psalms how the Lord presides over floods and we should "Come and see the works of God" so I went to stand on a bridge near home and watch the flood water and rain. I had a big gold umbrella up because the rain was torrential. As I came back up the road a 'voice' only I could hear but clear as crystal with tremendous certainty and assertive authority said "PUT DOWN YOUR UMBRELLA". As soon as I did so the rain stopped so suddenly not a drop hit me. I said "It is the Lord" and remembered the way the disciples said this after the resurrection. Asking Jesus to prove it was Him I later at night asked for a dressing gown I had never used hanging on my bedroom wall to come off the nail by the morning and then went to sleep. In the middle of the night something or someone got into the hiddenmost depths of my mind and made me wake up and get up. As I did I reached for the dressing gown and took it and suddenly remembered my sign request. This made me perceive Jesus so clearly and the fact I had asked to see Father and Son and Spirit made me certain God regards Jesus as His Son: Not just a son, His Son. That is what I had asked and what was being shown me. Then weeks later I was taken to the church where for the first time I was given interpretation of a message in toungues that went: "See the trees how they put forth buds and leaves; they do so by the power of the name of Lord Jesus Christ." So now I had certainty who Father and Son and Holy Spirit are and was set on a path following them into all truth. I found very similar words in a forgotten book of scripures called the Book of Enoch and got lots of comfort and knowledge reading it. A little later I wanted to preach in a church that let anyone preach or 'share' so as I had a bath to get ready a voice suddenly said with a vision together with it "Israel has sinned; this is the sign" and I saw an eagle with a white eye overhead looking down and the vision showed me wars and terrors on the ground while it surveilled from up high. The vision said I would see such things as a sign. Immediately on TV as I got ready for church I saw US spy planes sent out (this was mid or late nineties I think) and a new police helicopter surveillance service just being started and later we had wars and mass surveillance appearing everywhere unheard of when that word came to me. So God is now very real to me but I love to think back on those things whenever I can.

Ancient Cosmetic Palettes

Palettes. Cosmetics were being used from the time of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt before 3000 BC and this is especially evident in archaeology by finds of cosmetic palettes used to hold and apply cosmetic pigments such as for coloring the eye lids. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmetic_palette The cosmetic technology of pigments and palettes and the culture of how to use them in beautification seems to have been introduced first to a group of sheep-keeping, hunting people living in Egypt from early times up until the time their culture changed to what archaeologists Pre-Dynastic. The earlier culture is called Badari by archaeologists and historians after a main archaeological site named el-Badari. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badari_culture  Comparing this archaeology with the Book of Enoch accounts we see evidenced here the spread of the teachings of Azazel among the early people living in the area we now call Egypt. These had been simple shepherds, goatherds and hunters but they started suddenly using sophisticated technology such as chemistry of pigment production and fine art palette carving. They changed to become culture archaeologists and historians call Pre-Dynastic Egypt (made popular today in the film The Scorpion King portraying its sophisticated sorcery and weaponry).

The Checksum

Why God hid the Son of Man? It seems God does this in order to provide a suitable judge, He keeps the person hidden away and set apart from corrupting influences and ties that would hinder judgment and then at the right time God brings out His judge. In this provision of a judge God also may provide a person suited to sympathy because of having experienced the same experiences as those who will be judged. So the Son of Man is especially suited to judging humans and all the more so when God made the Son of Man flesh and blood. The first time the Son of Man came He explained it was to testify to the truth and for salvation but that God has given Him the authority to judge because He is the Son of Man. Indeed God could have sent Him only at the end of time to only judge but sending Him before the very end allowed a time of salvation. The Book of Enoch too has been hidden so maybe this book has a place of judgment given by God and in truth and salvation. It is being brought to light now perhaps to allow us to judge the teachings of religious groups and the veracity of interpretations of scriptures from which it has long been set apart and to save by rescuing interpretations from becoming too destructive and corrupt. In accounting IT we call this function a checksum which is created at the beginning of data preparation then hidden and passed to those who receive the data to compare with the data sent to them to confirm whether it is valid data. If it is invalid then attempts can be made to retrieve the valid version.

Parables of Christ

The Parables of Jesus Christ are about the Kingdom of God which is the dominion of the Holy Spirit once the Holy Spirit came from God. Having the Holy Spirit and having Him in charge is the "pearl of great price".

Hope or no hope?

In John 8 the Lord spoke to Jews who did not believe in Him being "before Abraham was born" and warned them they will die in their sins. Then halfway through the chapter it says what Jesus continued to say to those who DID believe and it was here He started to speak of being made free from sin by Himself

31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

So there is no hope given by Jesus of freedom from sin for those who do not believe He is the Son of Man who existed before Abraham.

What is the Trinity Theology?

The Trinity theology was an attempt to overcome problems with Jesus being described as a god because He said He is Son of God. First there is the polytheism problem - "Have no other gods before Me" is the command. Then there is the humanity of Jesus. Trinity theology tried to say Jesus is not just human but is also a god but not only that, He is the same god as the Father - in some philosophical sense He is The God. This gets around the charge of polytheism and the command to have no other gods. Then they tried to find verses to back that up. But actually this was not the answer Jesus Himself gave to the problem when the Jews presented it to Him. His answer was that He is only a god in the sense any mighty person can be called a god. Meanwhile He consustently taught His disciples to regard only the Father as the one true God.

The Cross of Christ

The cross of Christ means God is committed to bringing sinners to become saints so much that to free the believing sinners from persistently sinning He provided a sacrifice so they can put their sins behind them knowing God is doing the same (and can rightly do the same). Once this truth is known to a believer in Christ who still struggles with a persistent sin but holds to Christ's teachings (with a mind committed to fully obeying them), the believer is animated by the hope that God will provide a way out and Christ will work powerfully to free them. So their heart is opened and the Holy Spirit enters and truth enters and the power of God teaches and enables them to put aside that sin and practise right behaviour instead. It is the truth of the cross of Christ that facilitates this by giving hope that their sin can surely be dealt with and God will help and has paid their debt to allow this freedom.

Evidence of Angels

Enoch truly received instructions about the heavens from an angel who knew astronomy we only know in recent times. (Uriel, the Book of Enoch says, was the angelic authoritative guide to the stars and sun and moon in relation to the Earth.) This is evidenced in the Book of Enoch chapters 72 and 73, First the sun is somehow known to be greater than the moon and the moon smaller than the sun: 72:4 and 73:1. Then the size of the circumferance of moon is of the same order of magnitude as the circumferance of the heavens (sky) or in other words the Earth itself: 73:2. Thirdly what is most obvious then and now the sun and moon subtend the same angle so they look the same size to the eye and this is acknowledged in
72:37. The third fact would be obvious to Enoch but only in quite recent history have astronomers known that the moon is actually much smaller than the sun and a similar size to the Earth.

72:4 "And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled with illuminating and heating fire."

73:1 "And after this law I saw another law dealing with the smaller luminary, which is named the Moon."

73:2 "And her [the Moon's] circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and her chariot in which she rides is driven by the wind, and light is given to her in (definite) measure."

72:37 "As he [the Sun] rises, so he sets and decreases not, and rests not, but runs day and night, and his light is sevenfold brighter than that of the moon; but as regards size they are both equal."

Equinox

Relative day and night lengths listed in the Book of Enoch might have changed due to 'precession' and latitudinal changes caused by precession. It is Equinox for the Middle East latitude on March 20th in 2018 but not for all other latitudes apparently. Also the day and night lengths of a year for Enoch would have been different in different parts of the world. But not only that, it all changes gradually over time. The axis of the Earth gradually moves. They call it precession. We might be able to see where and when the Book of Enoch was written by the list given of day and night lengths and how they change through the year.

Human Logic

What pervades the world today? Social media - in cyberspace, the airwaves, our minds, our routines, our lives - but although it used to be classed as information and data (bytes and words and facts and fictions) we are starting to realise it is far more human than that - our humanness is filling our world like never before - emotions, fears, prides, joys, hatreds, loves, hopes, aspirations, plans, wishes, likes, dislikes, friendships, links, careers, skills, all human things filling cyberspace - now it is all logic - subject matter, logos, mind stuff and substance of what we are - yet all very very human - so the universe contains it but it does not need the universe to exist and it even existed before the universe in the person of the Son of Man and in recorded history of the not-too-distant past became flesh. 

The Human Man for Mankind

Angels and heavenly beings and human beings can be called people and sometimes translations of scriptures call them men. Many are man-like as distinct from a serpent-like or gargoyle-like being and there are angels who can appear like men. So if you see one you might simply say you saw a heavenly man. Yet the Lord before He was made flesh was called Son of Man or one like a Son of Man which implies He gave impression to those who saw Him (those blessed by God such that God gave them sight of Him) were somehow aware He was more human than angels who appeared human. This is what Jesus meant it seems by explaining He is this Son of Man - He existed since aeons past but more human than man-like angels so He is a man for mankind: The human man for mankind. 

True Flesh and Blood

When the Son of Man was made flesh He was really flesh - such that as He grew up even His own family did not believe He was anything more than a boy and then a young man - yet later one of His younger brothers Jude after His resurrection could quote Enoch and know Enoch was prophesying about his dear brother - and Lord.

Worthy of the Resurrection

The resurrection is only for those found worthy of it. To be worthy people must be clean. Clean of persistent sins. They must have stopped sinning so they have not died in their sins. This means first believing in the true nature of the One who frees from sinful enslavements - the Son of Man who existed in heaven as Son of Man before even Abraham's time, before even Adam, and was seen as the Messiah and died obediently and lives forever to keep people permanently free from enslavement to sin. Then it means holding persistently, constantly and permanently to the teachings of this Son of Man.

The Fourth Man

Just who was the Fourth Man in the Book of Daniel?
The Book of Daniel mentions two of the topmost angels, Michael and Gabriel, who can appear like men and Gabriel speaks to Daniel the prophet and Daniel records what is said in the Book of Daniel in the Bible today. But who was speaking to Daniel in the last two chapters of the Book of Daniel and appeared to Daniel by the river Tigris? Some say Gabriel but there was this one like a man earlier speaking to Gabriel (commanding Gabriel). If you say Michael it cannot be because the person speaks of Michael as another person. It seems, in writing the Book of Revelation centuries later and after the resurrection of Jesus, John was inspired by the Holy Spirit in showing this fourth person to be the Son of Man - Jesus (in Heaven over aeons before He was made flesh by the Holy Spirit). This puts a new light on what it means that Jesus is the Messiah.

To make it more certain we see two places in Daniel where there is this fourth man - the above mentioned passsges from chapters 7-12 (where there are three - Daniel and Gabriel and Michael - and then a mysterious fourth who is the one who is also led into the presence of the Ancient of Days) but also in chapter 3 where the fourth man again appears in the firey furnace of Nebuchadnezzar alongside Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.

Hear o Israel

It seems the Jews today are looking for a Messiah who can be called the son of David but they do not want to call Jesus that. I guess the cross might have something to do with that. If they believe Jesus is The Son of Man who was seen by Daniel and Enoch it will all make sense to them (John 8). I think it comes down to who was speaking to Daniel in the last two chapters of the Book of Daniel and appeared to Daniel by the river Tigris - some say Gabriel but there was this one like a man earlier speaking to Gabriel - it seems in writing Revelation John was inspired by the Holy Spirit in showing this person to be the Son of Man - Jesus in Heaven over aeons before He was made flesh by the Holy Spirit - this puts a new light on what it means that He is the Messiah - they need to believe this - we all do.

In the name of Mashiach - if you believe Mashiach ben Joseph, Mashiach, Messiah came 2000 years ago - you should be persisting His name - continuing His name - keeping His words - that will be your salvation - irrespective of the letters that tokenise the word used to refer to Him - no, His reputation, power, the authority of His teachings in our lives - the same authority by which nature itself is persisted and was created

משיח בן דוד

אמון המשיח שהגיע לפני 2000 שנה מוביל אותך רואה משיח בן דוד ואז אתה עלול להיות מופתע לגלות כי הוא אותו אדם - אז אתה עלול להיות מופתע לגלות כי אלוהים הוא אותו אלוהים ואת הרוח זהה רוח שרחפה מעל המים והמסר הוא פחות או יותר אותו המסר "ישראל חטאה!"

Messiah ben David

Trusting in the Mashiach who came 2000 years ago leads to you seeing Mashiach ben David and then you might be surprised to find that He is the same person - then you might be surprised to find that God is the same God and the Spirit is the same Spirit who hovered over the waters and the message is pretty much the same message "Israel has sinned!" 

Dominion

Surely the crucifixion of the Messiah 2000 years ago ended the dominion of legal laws - they do not diminish but they lose the top spot - under their dominion Messiah had still been killed even though it had been made to look legal - that way is finished as big boss over anyone - now the way must be the Spirit of God at the top spot - in dominion over us who believe God

Judgement Day

What will happen at the Final Judgement? Everyone known to the angels for a nasty personal history of sinning in some way gets a book written during their lifetime about that sin or sins and the book for each person will be opened and read at the Final Judgement. There are some who are also entered by name into another book either during or perhaps even after their lifetimes when they significantly obey and do the will God in some way, like Jesus did by going to the cross and suffering unto death. These have been faithful unto death and are promised a crown of life so their names are written in the Lamb's book of life. [Sources: Book of Revelation, Book of Enoch]

Spiritual Power

The Holy Spirit is specifically mentioned in scriptures yet we do not see the Holy Spirit but we see what disciples do beyond their natural ability and we receive the effects of it and realise that it comes from the Father and Son - then teachings tell us to understand this as being the Holy Spirit. Sometimes we get so caught up in it that we realise it is happening within us as well as among us.

There is also history of real events if we believe they occurred - the visit of Jesus Himself to Saul of Tarsus like an atomic bomb in that the light blinded Saul and he fell to the ground even though Jesus was high in the sky - perhaps miles high - then spirit enabling of Jesus to speak just to Saul himself and others only hearing a voice without perceiving the words yet oblivious visually to the light - so this combination of uttermost power and spirit emanated from the Son of Man - such is His nature - this is the Son of God at work now He is immortal - and this is only a small scale demonstration compared to what He will do at His coming again when everyone around the world will at once see that coming in the clouds - millions of times more physically powerful than a most powerful nuclear bomb and spiritual in nature such that it is directed differently to different people and accompanied by unnumberable angels to gather the elect.

Becoming Like Jesus

Even without trinitarian teaching about Jesus being God uniquely we can still understand that in one sense Jesus is uniquely a god. Yet this does not prevent us becoming like Him and being truly a brother to Him in spirit and nature. He became mortal flesh and died and rose immortal and we can become like Him by the Spirit (born again) and then die as He died and rise by resurrection as He rose. But still it is true He alone was set apart while angelically immortal human and sent into the world making Him validly called a god.

John 10
34Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods” ’d ? 35If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside— 36what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?

Umbrella

"Put down your umbrella!" The Son of Man has you covered!

Seventy Generations Later

After seventy generations had passed since Enoch preached to the fallen angels and then to that entire generation before the Flood, Jesus the Son of Man made flesh and crucified went and preached to them again after His crucifixion once His body was raised from the dead. Amazing to think what He might have preached. His crucifixion and resurrection must have been a part of it. Apparently it was to seek to bring their souls to obedience by knowing directly from the Son of Man Himself about how His obedience to God by letting Himself be crucified had led to God raising Him from the dead. So now seventy generations had passed and the Son of Man Himself was preaching to the generations of Enoch, Methuselah and Noah, maybe they would repent in prison (hell) and be a part of the resurrection at the Son of Man's return???
1 Peter 3:
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 19 in which he went and proclaimedd to the spirits in prison, 20 because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. 21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.

Walking with God

"Enoch walked with God"
Today walking with God means pleasing the Holy Spirit and being ever mindful of how to do so and ever learning how to do so - once we belong to the Son of Man - walking with (in step with, in liaison with, fellows together with) the Holy Spirit given in the name of the Son of Man - ever meditating on what the Holy Spirit teaches and demonstrates

Romans 8 (v5-11) "Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will. That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God. But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.) And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you lifed because you have been made right with God. The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you."

The Christ in Old Testament Times

Did Daniel tell of Gabriel or of the Christ fighting alongside archangel Michael? (In the Book of Daniel chapter 10)

Compare:

Daniel 10v5-7 "I looked up and there before me was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist. His body was like topaz, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude. I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision; those who were with me did not see it, but such terror overwhelmed them that they fled and hid themselves."

Revelation 1v12-16 "I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance."

The Mind Controlled by the Holy Spirit

Romans 8  (v5-11) "Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will. That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God. But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.) And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you lifed because you have been made right with God. The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you."

Book of Enoch chapter 67:
"8. ... now their spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished in their body, for they have denied the Lord of Spirits and see their punishment daily, and yet believe not in His name. ... 10. For the judgement shall come upon them, because they believe in the lust of their body and deny the Spirit of the Lord."

Water into Wine

The miracle of changing water into wine illustrates creation involving Father (the giver of the miracle) and Son (the implementer if it) - the Father designs and commands the work of creating and the Son implements the Father's will obeying the Father's commands by speaking and others obey the voice of the Son (like the servants were told by Mary "Whatever He says to you do it") and nature itself too obeys the commands of the Son because the Son always obeys the commands of the Father and believes the Father. Authority to create and govern creation starts with God and always goes through the name of the Son. I believe the Son even if not doing all the inplementing nevertheless it is in His authority and name that others including angels do it. So all is through the Son, even when the Son was flesh - while flesh and absent from heaven still ongoing governance and creating was being done in heaven by His authority - in His name. The water into wine miracle and other miracles demonstrate all this for us to believe. "Believe on the evidence of the miracles", He tells His disciples.

Learn not to trust inner lusts but trust the Spirit of God

Romans 8:

5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

Enoch 67:

8. ... now their spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished in their body, for they have denied the Lord of Spirits and see their punishment daily, and yet believe not in His name. ... 10. For the judgement shall come upon them, because they believe in the lust of their body and deny the Spirit of the Lord.

Live by the Spirit

The scriptures do not, despite the strong insistence of many, come as a set. Any one set will have major inadequecies which further revelations and scriptures can fix. Some inadequacies are glaring. Romans is an important epistle and its highest point is chapter 8 describing the way to live for eternal life. Yet it assumes we know what is meant by living by the Spirit or the Law of the Spirit and living by the flesh. Galatians 5 emphasises it without explaining it: "Live by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh." Nowhere do the Bible scriptures clarify conclusively what such an important teaching means. In forty years of attending various churches nobody has explained it conclusively in my hearing nor has anyone I have asked. The Book of Enoch (67:8-10 *) is the only source I have found that clarifies; by teaching that kings of the earth trusted in the lusts rather than following after the leadings of the Holy Spirit. This shows that it is all about what we trust and therefore follow after and if we trust our lusts we miss the leadings away from that way given by the Holy Spirit and if we distrust them and trust instead the leadings of the Holy Spirit we will be saved from the peril these kings were heading into.

* Enoch 67

"... 8. But those waters shall in those days serve for the kings and the mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, for the healing of the body, but for the punishment of the spirit; now their spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished in their body, for they have denied the Lord of Spirits and see their punishment daily, and yet believe not in His name. 9. And in proportion as the burning of their bodies becomes severe, a corresponding change shall take place in their spirit for ever and ever; for before the Lord of Spirits none shall utter an idle word. 10. For the judgement shall come upon them, because they believe in the lust of their body and deny the Spirit of the Lord. 11. And those same waters will undergo a change in those days; for when those angels are punished in these waters, these water-springs shall change their temperature, and when the angels ascend, this water of the springs shall change and become cold. 12. And I heard Michael answering and saying: 'This judgement wherewith the angels are judged is a testimony for the kings and the mighty who possess the earth.' 13. Because these waters of judgement minister to the healing of the body of the kings and the lust of their body; therefore they will not see and will not believe that those waters will change and become a fire which burns for ever."